'Baddest' bikies attract top ads

They are the self-proclaimed ''baddest'' bikie gang in the world and Qantas and Telstra have been advertising on their website.

Meet the Mongols, the newest international bikie gang infiltrating Australia.

Known for a series of violent incidents in southern California, including clashing with Hells Angels bikers, the Mongols are patching over members of existing local bikie gang the Finks.

They boast a slick US-based website, which mentions four chapters in Australia and appears to be getting so much traffic it has attracted advertising from companies including Telstra and Qantas. Last week the banner ads for Qantas were offering cheap flights between Melbourne and Sydney while News Corp was offering digital subscriptions.

A spokeswoman for Telstra said an online publisher it used to place advertising was to blame and the ad would be removed.

''We employ a number of tactics, including developing a list of sites we will and won't advertise on,'' she said. ''From time to time sites get added to the publishers' lists that are not cleared on our white list before being served with our media. Unfortunately on this occasion, our media was sent to this site without being cleared by us.''

A spokesman for Qantas said Qantas did not place the advertisement. It had ended up on the website as part of a package of advertising that Qantas had done through Tourism Victoria. It was ''not the kind of website we would knowingly advertise on''.

It is understood the advertisement was removed after Fairfax contacted Qantas.

A Victorian government spokesman said: ''When Tourism Victoria was made aware of it, the ad was immediately pulled and this particular site blacklisted.''

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